The New Hacker's Dictionary

2. Noted Unix hacker John Gilmore [], founder of Usenet's anarchic alt.* hierarchy.

gnubie /noo'bee/ n.

Written-only variant of newbie in common use on IRC channels, which implies specifically someone who is new to the Linux/open source/free software world.

GNUMACS /gnoo'maks/ n.

[contraction of 'GNU EMACS'] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, EMACS. Used esp. in contrast with GOSMACS.

go flatline // v.

[from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] (also adjectival 'flatlined').

1. To die, terminate, or fail, esp. irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about.

2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline."

3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.

go root // vi.

[Unix; common] To temporarily enter root mode in order to perform a privileged operation. This use is deprecated in Australia, where v. 'root' is a synonym for "fuck".

go-faster stripes // n.

[UK] syn. chrome. Mainstream in some parts of UK.

GoAT //

[Usenet] Abbreviation: "Go Away, Troll". See troll.

gobble // vt.